Does the 32GB Variant of iPhone 7 Use Slower Storage? Looks Like We’ll Find Out

Apple has finally rid itself of the 16GB storage models, which is a modicum amount of storage in devices that bear premium price tags. Unfortunately, it however looks like the 128GB models of iPhone seven will deliver the sweet spot when it comes to pricing and performance because according to storage speed tests carried out, the 32GB storage variant has turned out to exist inferior, despite featuring more internal retentivity.

Turns Out That the Storage Speed of 32GB iPhone 7 Is Actually Slower Than an iPhone 6s – Run across These Results for Yourself

In a detailed series of tests carried out by GSMArena, at that place were three devices that were taken for a storage speed test:

iPhone 6s 64GB
iPhone seven 32GB
iPhone vii Plus 128GB

One would assume that since Apple's iPhone seven features better components compared to an iPhone 6s, it would outperform the visitor's iPhone 6s in storage speed test results too right? Non quite, equally the results had a very different story to tell. If yous take a look at the scores' epitome below, the only ii scenarios where the 32GB variant of iPhone vii is able to prove superior to the 64GB model of iPhone 6s is in the '5min 4K video copy' and 'PassMark Storage Write' speed test results. In other tests, the previous generation iPhone completely blows it out of the water, which volition definitely force you lot to question the visitor'southward approach.

Information technology is possible that Apple used slower storage while upping the total book in order to continue the same price on iPhone seven as the base storage model of iPhone 6s. Keep in mind that at launch, both the 32GB of iPhone vii and 16GB of iPhone 6s retailed for $649, so it's definitely a possibility that Apple used the aforementioned approach. Another question that you guys will be wondering if the same thing would happen to the 32GB model of iPhone 7 Plus. Unfortunately, the tests carried out did not include the phablet version of the iPhone, simply when more updates come our way, we'll definitely provide you with boosted info on the thing.